Events Organiser

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom lga Full time

**Part-time 30 hours - 4 days a week**:
**About us**:
The Local Government Association (LGA) is the national membership body for local authorities. We work on behalf of our member councils to support, promote and improve local government.

We are a politically led, cross-party organisation that works on behalf of councils to ensure local government has a strong, credible voice with national government. We influence and set the political agenda on the issues that matter to councils to help them deliver local solutions to national problems.

We also provide councils with the tools and resources to respond to challenges present and emerging, and support improvement across the sector.

**About the role**

Working for the Events Team within the Communications Directorate, your main duties will include:
End to end event management to deliver a programme of successful events (Virtual webinars/meetings via zoom, hybrid and in-person) working alongside partners and with speakers, exhibitors and sponsors.

Developing an annual programme of events, initiating programme ideas, advising on content, speakers and programme structure.

Proposing and implementing a range of event activity, identifying commercial topics, high profile speakers, and target audiences undertaking all aspects of event management, marketing, organisation and delivery.

Preparation and reconciliation of budgets and financial control.

Securing commercial / income generating opportunities.

Developing and implementing marketing strategies including social media.

**About you**

It’s essential that you are pro-active and self-motivated. We are looking for a confident team player with sound experience in events management and sponsorship with excellent writing and oral skills.

You will need to have the knowledge, experience, and ambition to engage confidently with members and senior representatives from Government departments plus public, private and voluntary sectors.

You will have the political awareness and understand the importance of ensuring the balance and diversity of events.

You will have strong organisational and leadership skills with a track record of organising a wide spectrum of events including zoom webinars/meetings, hybrid and one day in-person events to delivering conferences with multiple sessions across several days.

You are an excellent communicator, problem solver and can work independently to research topics for inclusion on programmes. Originating marketing content, you have a strong understanding of using a range of direct marketing and communication tools plus social media in a politically sensitive environment.

You will require strong relationship management skills and experience to confidently work with sponsors, exhibition contractors and exhibitors, speakers and other internal and external stakeholders.

You will be passionate about creating great events and contribute fresh ideas and industry best practice to make LGA events the best they can be.

You will be focused on success for the whole team and for the LGA, bringing a positive can-do attitude to a role which can often be highly pressured.

**_You must have the right to work in the UK, the LGA are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship visas. Evidence for the right to work in the UK will be requested at the interview stage. _**

**To apply**

If you would like to be considered for the role, please complete the online form and include a detailed supporting statement (expression of interest) detailing how you meet the criteria of the role before the closing date.

The full job description is available below.

**Closing Date**:5pm, Monday 11 December 2023
**Interview Date**: Wednesday 20 December 2023, interview will be held in-person unless there are exceptional circumstances.

**Our benefits**
- LGA annual leave entitlement is 29 days, rising to 31 days after three years’ service and to 33 days after five years’ service, plus all UK public holidays (pro rata for fixed term and part time contracts).*
- Future development - face-to-face and virtual courses are scheduled in line with developmental goals
- The LGA offers 24/7 access to a free, confidential employee assistance programme managed by Health Assured. This service is also available for Dependants.
- Family friendly policies

**Our values & behaviours**:
Our Values and Behaviours are there to give us an understanding of who we are as an organisation and who we want to be. They are a framework to help us understand:

- how we work with each other
- how we work with our members and stakeholders
- our expectations for ourselves and each other

Our values are:
**Inclusive** - We ensure that our work is inclusive of all voices.

**Ambitious** - We are ambitious for councils and their communities and are committed to striving for excellence in all that we do to support our colleagues, our membership and the sector to deliver the best possible outcomes.

**Collaborative -** We bring together the expertis

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